By citing TCO Certified in your IT procurement, you’re part of a worldwide signal that promotes sustainability and directly impacts how IT products are designed and manufactured. You are also selecting products designed for greater circularity, lower climate impact, supply chain accountability and safer material content. Citing TCO Certified in procurement also puts our verification
Criteria and verification methods are science-based and are developed in a continuous, open process with our international network of stakeholders that includes subject matter experts, users, buyers, brands, manufacturers, researchers and NGOs.
Yes. Some of the existing regulations harmonized within TCO Certified include ILO’s core conventions, United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Energy Star’s energy efficiency requirements, and RoHS.
A new generation of TCO Certified is released every three years, supporting our long-term Roadmap for Sustainable IT.
TCO Certified includes a comprehensive set of sustainability criteria that cover social and environmental responsibility in the supply chain and throughout the product life cycle. Priority areas addressed by our criteria are climate, substances, circularity and supply chain.
The organization behind TCO Certified is TCO Development. We have certified IT products since 1992, beginning with user health and safety issues and have since grown to become a global sustainability certification for IT products, covering both social and environmental aspects. TCO Certified is valid worldwide and we offer market support globally. TCO Development is
All certified products must be independently verified to meet all criteria in TCO Certified, and factories are independently verified and monitored throughout the life of the certificate. Certification requirements include mandatory product testing, factory risk assessments, and ongoing monitoring. All verification is handled by independent verifiers accredited in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025. Each test
We certify specific IT product models, not IT brands or manufacturers as a whole.
TCO Certified is a comprehensive system of rigorous sustainability criteria and independent verification of compliance that provides purchasers and the IT industry with a trusted, science-based solution for IT product sustainability. Independent testing and assessment of products and factories to ensure criteria are being met is mandatory.
TCO Certified is freely cited in IT procurement by organizations around the world as a way to identify more responsible IT product choices. The more organizations that ask for TCO Certified, the stronger the signal to the IT industry to implement sustainable change.